a square or round head, or a head marked with one or two lines. Schuessler notes that some bronze graphs for Tian, depicting a person with a round head, resemble those for (the "fourth Celestial stem"). He suggests that "the anthropomorphic graph may or may not indicate that the original meaning was 'deity' rather than 'sky'."

Two variant Chinese characters for Tian ? are:
* (èr rén, "two humans"), written with ("two") and